Generalized DPW method and an application to isometric immersions of space forms

DOI10.1007/S00209-008-0367-9MaRDI QIDQ1014231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Brander, Josef F. Dorfmeister

Publication date 27 April 2009

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604247

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapisometric immersionloop groupsymmetric spaceDPW methodIwasawa decompositionBirkhoff factorization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Local submanifolds (53B25) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a complex Lie group and $LambdaG$ denote the group of maps from the unit circle ${mathbbS}^1$ into $G$, of a suitable class. A differentiable map $F$ from a manifold $M$ into $LambdaG$, is said to be of emph{connection order ${(}_a^b)$} if the Fourier expansion in the loop parameter $lambda$ of the ${mathbbS}^1$-family of Maurer-Cartan forms for $F$, namely $F_{l}ambd{a}^{-1}dd{F}_{l}ambda$, is of the form $su{m}_{i=a}^{b}alph{a}_{i}lambd{a}^i$. Most integrable systems in geometry are associated to such a map. Roughly speaking, the DPW method used a Birkhoff type splitting to reduce a harmonic map into a symmetric space, which can be represented by a certain order ${(}_{-1}^1)$ map, into a pair of simpler maps of order ${(}_{-1}^{-1})$ and ${(}_1^1)$ respectively. Conversely, one could construct such a harmonic map from any pair of ${(}_{-1}^{-1})$ and ${(}_1^1)$ maps. This allowed a Weierstrass type description of harmonic maps into symmetric spaces. We extend this method to show that, for a large class of loop groups, a connection order ${(}_a^b)$ map, for $a<0<b$, splits uniquely into a pair of ${(}_a^{-1})$ and ${(}_1^b)$ maps. As an application, we show that constant non-zero curvature submanifolds with flat normal bundle of a sphere or hyperbolic space split into pairs of flat submanifolds, reducing the problem (at least locally) to the flat case. To extend the DPW method sufficiently to handle this problem requires a more general Iwasawa type splitting of the loop group, which we prove always holds at least locally.

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